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The America First Policies Wikipedia page is not comprehensive in its information. The page is quite skimpy with its information and is lacking in its explanation of the values and actual policies guiding America First Policy. The page does not provide the reader with a full understanding of what specific actions America First is doing or what issues the are facing. There is a Targeted Campaigns section, only one campaign is discussed in this section and in the section there is no explanation of why America First is against Obamacare. The information on the page is cited mostly from news sources such as The Huffington Post, Time.com, Usnews.com, and The New York Times. These are privately owned news sources with biases that are not taken into account. Instead, I think that more scholarly articles or government statements should be used to gather the information on this government policy and non profit.

Sources for wiki project

1.Quinnipiac University Poll. (2017, February). Immigration/ Border Control. Retrieved February 16, 2018, from http://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm

2.CNN/ORC Poll. (2017, January). Immigration/ Border Control. Retrieved February 16, 2018, from http://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm

3.CNN/ORC Poll. (2015, November). Immigration/ Border Control. Retrieved February 16, 2018, from http://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm

4.Gallup Poll. (2017, January). Immigration/ Border Control. Retrieved February 16, 2018, from http://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm

5. Momin, S. (2017). A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO REFUGEES: A LOOK AT THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS AND THE RESPONSES FROM GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES. Duke Forum for Law & Social Change (DFLSC), 9, 55-79. Retrieved February 16, 2018.

US Public Opinion on Syrian Refugee Crisis
Since the Syrian Refugee Crisis, the United States citizens have been formulating opinions on how to deal with the refugee crisis. In a CNN/ORC poll conducted in November of 2015 when responding to the question “Do you favor or oppose allowing refugees from Syria to seek asylum in the United States? ... Do you favor/oppose that strongly or just somewhat?” 16% of people were strongly in favor, 22% somewhat in favor, 18% somewhat opposed, 43% strongly opposed, and 1% were unsure. This poll indicates that towards the beginning of the Refugee Crisis people were more so in opposition of Syrian refugees taking asylum in the United States. This poll was conducted again in 2017, January 31st through February 2nd, responding to the same question. In this poll, 25% of people were strongly in favor, 29% somewhat in favor, 18% somewhat opposed, 27% strongly opposed, and 2% were unsure with a margin of error of plus or minus 3. This poll indicates that Americans are pretty split on the issue of letting Syrian refugees into the United States in 2017 and that more people changed their opinions from 2015 to be more in favor of letting in Syrian refugees.

In Duke University Law School’s Academic Journal, Suman Momin wrote an article entitled A Human Rights Based Approach to Refugees: A Look at the Syrian Refugee Crisis and Responses from Germany and the United States. Momin lays out the most common moral and intrinsic arguments that affect citizens' opinions on refugee issues such as the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Momin introduces the “Good Samaritan” argument, the protection argument, and the political responsibility argument. The Good Samaritan argument states that people are in favor of helping non-citizens who are refugees as long as they believe that by helping, their own country will not be sacrificing anything. The protection argument stems from the idea that humans care about the rights and lives of others. This argument means that people pay attention to emotional debates that use photos of refugees or play at emotional connections, making people want to protect or save refugees. Finally, the political responsibility argument states that people are more willing to help when they think providing aid or letting in refugees with advance their own country politically. Where Americans stand on these moral rationales is what influences their opinion of foreign policy issues towards Syrian refugees.

In a Quinnipiac University Poll from February 16th through February 21st 2016, responding to the question “Do you support or oppose accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S.?”, 74% of democrats and 43% of independents were in support of Syrian refugees coming to the US while only 13% of republicans were in support. 82% of republicans were opposed to Syrian refugees coming to the US, 51% of independents and 22% of democrats. 4% to 5% of people in each party had no answer. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9. This poll indicates that democrats are largely in favor of Syrian refugees entering the US while republicans are largely opposed and considering the margin of error, independents are completely split on the issue. In another poll taken by Gallup Poll in January 30th and 31st of 2017 Gallup asked people “Thinking now about some of the specific actions Donald Trump has taken since he has been in office, would you say you approve or disapprove of indefinitely suspending the United States' Syrian refugee program” 32% of people approved Trumps actions suspending the Syrian refugee program 62% of people disapproved and 6% of people were unsure. There was a margin of error of plus or minus 4 in this poll. These public opinion polls show how American opinions change and how they would respond to questions concerning Syrian refugees.